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WBAP Morning Bits

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I'm going to ask a question that I've wondered about for years. Hopefully I'm not breaking any unspoken rules by asking the "magicians" to share a few of their secrets . . .

Am I correct in assuming that Hal Jay writes most of the comedy bits that they air at 6:54 and 7:54 on weekday mornings? Does anyone else have a part in the creation of these hilarious moments?

FInally, who provides the voices for the different characters?
 
Eric Harley Co-hostof the "Midnight Network" formerly the "Midnight Trucking network,formerly "The Midnight Cowboy Trucking Network".
 
Eric Harley . . . that is fascinating. I enjoy listening to WBAP's overnight show on some of my more insomnia-filled nights. Do they write their routines before 5:00 AM? During other parts of the broadcast while others are on the air? After the show ends at 9:00? I'll never be able to listen to the Midnight Network again without thinking about Eric's morning show efforts!

Thanks, KPLEXCOMPLEX
 
Not sure when they wreite them but the 5am hour of the Network is a repeat of the 12am hour, so perhaps they do it then. or after 9am as you suggested.
 
If he's lurking here perhaps former WBAP Morning news guy Dan Potter could pull back the curtain on the bit creative process?
 
Don't most stations using bits, get them from places like JonesTM?

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Some do. BUT Hal and Eric do their own except Sam from Sales, though Eric did impersonate Sam after the original had a conflict with Shomper. Afterawhile the Original cam back. Heywouldusuemee was also part of the mornings there as well,and he is at The Ranch.
 
That would be John Hansen. John came to work at WBAP/KSCS (if memory serves me correctly) from Sulphur Springs and KDXE. He took the night job on FM, and eventually wound up in the production department.

I cannot remember how they came up with Sam, but it was Hal and John who wrote those early bits,and I am sure most if not all of them today.

John also had a cool jet-black Monte Carlo.
 
I have heard Hal mention Shaun Chastine(?) helps with them some too. Hal was on with Mark Davis for an hour one New Years Eve and explained a lot of this. He said there were days when the bit was finished literally minutes before it was aired.

I still miss Tales of the Old West.
 
John lives in Iowa I last heard. Could you believe Bob Shomper former OM OF WBAP told Hal he didn't think the bits were funny. Hal was more than a little taken back by that.
 
Shomper's not the only one.

But again, maybe that's the board's generation gap showing.

AWRT has nominated both Dunham/Miller/Keith and the RHyner/Williams/Davison shows from the ticket for personalitys of the year. Do you guys think those guys are funny?

Funnier than Hal Jay?
 
I do know that being "serious" all the time closes off your circulation. I read it in the paper. Gotta love the 80's biddness mentality here,>Homoginized blandness is their definition of creativity.AND THEY GET PAID FOR IT! As far as nominations and chosing "personalities of the year" ..LOL even you are not t hat dumb to know its another form of politics. If it was based on entertainment and creativity with Humor, Hal and company would blow their doors off. Little One sheesh lighten up will ya,you might get rid of that migraine and hemmoroid above the shoulders.
 
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